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Wikipedia has earned our trust. Now its founder proposes an innovative assault on fake news with Wikitribune.

More democratic forms of politics, journalism and fact-checking will be needed when we can no longer trust any video footage.

Whatever the reason for faking Arkady Babchenko’s death, this episode will not make journalists any safer.

The undercover comic has been criticised for tricking public figures into saying stupid things – but that doesn’t mean they didn’t want to say them.

For all the chatter about the Kremlin’s supposed preference for Trump over Clinton, its strategy is far from clear.

Gareth Jones reported on Moscow’s genocide against the Ukrainian people in the 1930s. His story holds lessons and an example for those reporting on the latest conflict.

Dickens worried for the safety of his sons when diphtheria broke out in France and - in a newly discovered letter - wrote about how the truth was difficult to find.

It’s not alternative facts we need to worry about, it’s the fact that moguls still dominate the media, both old and new.

As Solzhenitsyn saw it, simple truths are always a threat to totalitarianism.

More and more people are saying they don’t trust the news or can’t face engaging with it – and that appears to have political implications.